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social medicine

medical field that takes social context into account
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social medicine

Summary

social medicine is a medical specialty[1]. It draws 17 Wikipedia views per month (medical_specialty category, ranking #112 of 177).[2]

Key Facts

  • social medicine's instance of is recorded as medical specialty[3].
  • social medicine is a type of medicine[4].
  • social medicine is a type of public health[5].
  • social medicine's said to be the same as is recorded as Q115727415[6].
  • social medicine's said to be the same as is recorded as medical sociology[7].
  • social medicine's is the study of is recorded as social determinants of health[8].

Body

Definition and Type

social medicine's instance of is recorded as medical specialty[3]. Recorded subclass of include medicine[4] and public health[5].

Why It Matters

social medicine draws 17 Wikipedia views per month (medical_specialty category, ranking #112 of 177).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

John Langdon Down medicine public health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → medical specialty
    Is the study of → social determinants of health
    Said to be the same as → Q115727415, medical sociology
    Aliases → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18724, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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